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Author: Ronald Grigor Suny
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780472088287
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn interdisciplinary look at the role of intellectuals in the making of nations
Author: Yuliya Kalnaus
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 284
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe following thesis investigates the development of Russian liberal intellectuals' discourse on the Russian national identity and the Russian nation from the late 1980s to early 1990s. This study seeks an answer to the question as to what concepts of the nation were supported by Russian liberal intellectuals, and what was the overall legacy of this particular group for the Russian nation-building process. This work argues that Russian liberal intellectuals underwent a social identity crisis while trying to redefine their position within a century-old triangle of "intellectuals- narod (the people)- vlast '(state/power)." This crisis directly affected Russian liberal intellectuals' discourse on the nation-building process. The majority of Russian liberal intellectuals supported the primordial vision of Russia, described along ethnic and linguistic lines. A civic nationalism was supported by a fraction of intellectuals after the concepts of the narod and the vlast ' were reformulated as unsuitable for the nation-construction. Nevertheless, Russian liberal intellectuals' discourse on nation helped to envision an independent Russia outside of the USSR. Russian liberal intellectuals brought liberal values such as individualism and democracy, civil liberties, and human rights into the political discourse and into the discourse on the Russian national identity. At the same time, they constructed Russianness on the contradictory notion of universalism and uniqueness, as rooted in an imperial identity with the leading role of ethnic Russians over the territory with unclear geographical, cultural, and political borders. This version of Russianness was envisioned by liberal intellectuals as closely connected to their leading role among ethnic Russians.
Author: Federico Giulio Sicurella
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2020-06-08
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9027261075
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book explores the nexus of intellectual activity and nation-building from a critical discourse-analytical perspective. By examining how public intellectuals from Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina commented on key national events in editorials and opinion pieces, it offers unique insights into contemporary nation-building discourses in an enlarging Europe. Through a detailed reconstruction of the debates concerning the selected events, the book also provides fresh empirical evidence of the implications and challenges of post-socialist transition, post-conflict reconciliation, democratisation and European integration in the post-Yugoslav region. Its versatile framework, which innovatively combines sociological and linguistic approaches to the discursive positioning of intellectuals, may be readily applied to the analysis of intellectual engagement with current affairs and public life in general.
Author: Sean A. Forner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-03-23
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 1107627834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines how democracy was rethought in Germany in the wake of National Socialism, the Second World War, and the Holocaust. Focusing on a loose network of public intellectuals in the immediate postwar years, Sean Forner traces their attempts to reckon with the experience of Nazism and scour Germany's ambivalent political and cultural traditions for materials with which to build a better future. In doing so, he reveals, they formulated an internally variegated but distinctly participatory vision of democratic renewal - a paradoxical counter-elitism of intellectual elites. Although their projects ran aground on internal tensions and on the Cold War, their commitments fueled critique and dissent in the two postwar Germanys during the 1950s and thereafter. The book uncovers a conception of political participation that went beyond the limited possibilities of the Cold War era and influenced the political struggles of later decades in both East and West.
Author: Laura L. Adams
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010-02-05
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0822392534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLaura L. Adams offers unique insight into nation building in Central Asia during the post-Soviet era through an exploration of Uzbekistan’s production of national culture in the 1990s. As she explains, after independence the Uzbek government maintained a monopoly over ideology, exploiting the remaining Soviet institutional and cultural legacies. The state expressed national identity through tightly controlled mass spectacles, including theatrical and musical performances. Adams focuses on these events, particularly the massive outdoor concerts the government staged on the two biggest national holidays, Navro’z, the spring equinox celebration, and Independence Day. Her analysis of the content, form, and production of these ceremonies shows how Uzbekistan’s cultural and political elites engaged in a highly directed, largely successful program of nation building through culture. Adams draws on her observations and interviews conducted with artists, intellectuals, and bureaucrats involved in the production of Uzbekistan’s national culture. These elites used globalized cultural forms such as Olympics-style spectacle to showcase local, national, and international aspects of official culture. While these state-sponsored extravaganzas were intended to be displays of Uzbekistan’s ethnic and civic national identity, Adams found that cultural renewal in the decade after Uzbekistan’s independence was not so much a rejection of Soviet power as it was a re-appropriation of Soviet methods of control and ideas about culture. The public sphere became more restricted than it had been in Soviet times, even as Soviet-era ideas about ethnic and national identity paved the way for Uzbekistan to join a more open global community.
Author: Eleonora Narvselius
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 0739164686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntelligentsia assumes the right to speak in the name of the entire nation and to extrapolate its own tastes, values and choices to it. Therefore, intelligentsia's voices have been in many ways decisive in the discussions about Ukrainian national identity, which gained momentum in the post-Soviet Ukrainian society. The historical and cultural cityscape of L'viv is an especially apt site for investigation of the nexus intelligentsia-nation not only in the Ukrainian, but in the East-Central European context. This borderline city, while not being a remarkable industrial, administrative or political centre, has acquired the reputation of a site of unique cultural production and a principal center of the Ukrainian nationalist movement throughout the twentieth century. Here the popular conceptions of intelligentsia have been elaborated at the intersection of various cultural, historical and political traditions. This study addresses Ukrainian-speaking intelligentsia and intellectuals in L'viv both as a discursive phenomenon and as the social category of cultural producers who in the new circumstances both articulate the nation and are articulated by it.
Author: Edin Hajdarpasic
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2015-09-03
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0801453712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the site of the assassination that triggered World War I and the place where the term "ethnic cleansing" was invented during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, Bosnia has become a global symbol of nationalist conflict and ethnic division. But as Edin Hajdarpasic shows, formative contestations over the region began well before 1914, emerging with the rise of new nineteenth-century forces—Serbian and Croatian nationalisms as well as Ottoman, Habsburg, Muslim, and Yugoslav political movements—that claimed this province as their own. Whose Bosnia? reveals the political pressures and moral arguments that made this land a prime target of escalating nationalist activity. To explain the remarkable proliferation of national movements since the nineteenth century, Hajdarpasic draws on a vast range of sources—records of secret societies, imperial surveillance files, poetry, paintings, personal correspondences—spanning Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Turkey, and Austria. Challenging conventional readings of Balkan histories, Whose Bosnia? provides new insight into central themes of modern politics, illuminating core subjects like "the people," state-building, and national suffering. Hajdarpasic uses South Slavic debates over Bosnian Muslim identity to propose a new figure in the history of nationalism: the (br)other, a character signifying at the same time the potential of being both "brother" and “Other,” containing the fantasy of both complete assimilation and insurmountable difference. By bringing such figures into focus, Whose Bosnia? shows nationalism to be an immensely dynamic and open-ended force, one that eludes any clear sense of historical closure.
Author: Florencia E. Mallon
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-10
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 0520914678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeasant and Nation offers a major new statement on the making of national politics. Comparing the popular political cultures and discourses of postcolonial Mexico and Peru, Florencia Mallon provides a groundbreaking analysis of their effect on the evolution of these nation states. As political history from a variety of subaltern perspectives, the book takes seriously the history of peasant thought and action and the complexity of community politics. It reveals the hierarchy and the heroism, the solidarity and the surveillance, the exploitation and the reciprocity, that coexist in popular political struggle. With this book Mallon not only forges a new path for Latin American history but challenges the very concept of nationalism. Placing it squarely within the struggles for power between colonized and colonizing peoples, she argues that nationalism must be seen not as an integrated ideology that puts the interest of the nation above all other loyalties, but as a project for collective identity over which many political groups and coalitions have struggled. Ambitious and bold, Peasant and Nation both draws on monumental archival research in two countries and enters into spirited dialogue with the literatures of post-colonial studies, gender studies, and peasant studies.
Author: Alyssa Ayres
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-07-23
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 0521519314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text examines language and culture's importance to political legitimacy using the example of Pakistan, in comparison with India and Indonesia.
Author: Ioana Bunescu
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-08
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1317061896
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis path-breaking book explains the processes through which the heterogeneous population of Roma in Europe constitutes itself into a transnational collective identity through the practices and discourses of everyday life, as well as through those of identity politics. It illustrates how the collective identity formation of the Roma in Europe is constituted simultaneously in the local, national, and European contexts, drawing attention to the mismatches and gaps between these levels, as well as the creative opportunities for achieving this political aim. Bunescu demonstrates that the differences and stereotypes between the Roma and the non-Roma, as well as those among different groups of Roma, fulfil a politically creative function for the constitution of a unified transnational collective identity for the Roma in Europe. The book is unique - comprising chapters ranging from local ethnographic accounts of inter-ethnic relations of rural Roma in a Transylvanian village, to interviews with international Roma political activists, controversial Roma kings, and an extensive chapter on their role of bridging the local and the higher levels of identity politics, visual depictions of a diversity of Roma living spaces and interpretations of the politics of space in private dwellings, as well as in public venues, such as at Roma international festivals.
